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<p>[QUOTE="illini420, post: 1285757, member: 19423"]If I had enough credit cards w/ different billing addresses, I'd try to buy up the entire mintage of 100,000 sets... so there!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>There are people out there willing to pay much more than the mint is selling them for... taking advantage of this isn't greedy, it's smart. People do it in the markets every day. Look up arbitrage. This is about as close to the definition as you get in the coin market. This is an opportunity for profit without risk at zero cost. I say zero cost in this situation since we're using credit cards and there is a strong possiblity that I can get paid by my buyer before I have to pay my credit card bill. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the thread that should have been titled "free money."</p><p><br /></p><p>If you're a collector and you just want one set, you'll get it from the Mint, don't worry. As long as you're persistent in trying on the web and/or the phone, you'll almost certainly get through before there is a sellout. Even the 2009 Lincoln Coin & Chronicles set which was a max mintage of 50,000 (but only one per order) took about 4 days to sell out and that was about as hyped as this release and that too was pretty much "free money."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="illini420, post: 1285757, member: 19423"]If I had enough credit cards w/ different billing addresses, I'd try to buy up the entire mintage of 100,000 sets... so there!!!! There are people out there willing to pay much more than the mint is selling them for... taking advantage of this isn't greedy, it's smart. People do it in the markets every day. Look up arbitrage. This is about as close to the definition as you get in the coin market. This is an opportunity for profit without risk at zero cost. I say zero cost in this situation since we're using credit cards and there is a strong possiblity that I can get paid by my buyer before I have to pay my credit card bill. This is the thread that should have been titled "free money." If you're a collector and you just want one set, you'll get it from the Mint, don't worry. As long as you're persistent in trying on the web and/or the phone, you'll almost certainly get through before there is a sellout. Even the 2009 Lincoln Coin & Chronicles set which was a max mintage of 50,000 (but only one per order) took about 4 days to sell out and that was about as hyped as this release and that too was pretty much "free money."[/QUOTE]
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